FlightGlobal
• Craig Hoyle
Pilatus has completed the first flight of the PC-7 MKX basic trainer at its Stans facility, using a production aircraft intended for launch customer the Netherlands. Deliveries of the new turboprop trainer are scheduled to begin in 2027.
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
By Air Data News: Offer for Tokyo’s SHIELD coastal defense program follows German partnership and recent US Air Force evaluation of the unmanned Boeing plans to offer the MQ-28 Ghost Bat to Japan as Tokyo prepares a new coastal defense network based heavily on unmanned systems.
FlightGlobal
• Greg Waldron
By FlightGlobal: Recently deployed indigenous glide bomb could prove a useful tool against Russian ground forces. Ukraine's development of the 'Vyrivnyuvach' indigenous glide bomb is a direct response to Russia's invasion, helping to offset a key threat to Ukrainian troops on the frontline.
Air Data News
• Ricardo Meier
By Air Data News: Airbus wants a significant role if Germany joins the British-Italian-Japanese fighter program, while accommodating MTU could require reopening Germany has increasingly been mentioned as a possible new partner in the Global Combat Air Programme after the collapse of the Franco-German FCAS fighter project .
FlightGlobal
• Craig Hoyle
By FlightGlobal: First five CH-47Fs have been handed over, under a contract signed in January 2023. Egypt’s air force has taken delivery of its first five of 12 Boeing CH-47F Chinooks, with the milestone being marked during the 8-10 September El Alamein air show.
FlightGlobal
• Greg Waldron
By FlightGlobal: Defence ministry signals that long-awaited Su-30MKI upgrade could be imminent. New Delhi has given its blessing to begin the acquisition process for new helicopters and upgrades for fighter aircraft.
Wall Street Journal
• Daniel Kiss, Emma Brown, Roque Ruiz
By Wall Street Journal: Almost every week this summer brought new reports of drone incursions over the alliance’s eastern frontier, the airspace over which is now a front line.
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: Russia claims that a US Navy missile launcher deployed to Norway is part of its wartime targeting plans after a C-17 delivered the system to Trondheim.
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Wall Street Journal
• Shelby Holliday
AeroTime
• Ian Molyneaux
